Show Political Faith 4 J I THIS HIS funny story went the rounds in America AmerI Amer- Amer America I ica gene generations ago when the leading political pa parties ties were the Whigs and the Tories At a Go political meeting a Tory proudly stood I up and announced his political faith Being asked why he was a 13 Tory h he answered Because Because Because Be Be cause my father was one before me And why vv was your yOur father a Tory Because my grandfather was Huh grunt grunted the Whig If your father and grandfather had both been fools what would you be be- be A Whig the Tory answered sweetly Political p parties for many years were were automatically automatically auto auto- perpetuated because the average voter passed on his political fa faith th to his children Boys raised in a Republican home I naturally become Republicans ans So Bo o with Demo Deth Probably this was because politics was taken more seriously in the old days Voters were gullible believed everything the platform orators told them They worked into frenzies around election time time marched marched miles in torchlight processions ever ready to fight with fists and bricks brick in support of their party's candidates ca In this atmosphere a Republican Re Re- Re-j Re publican father taught his boys that Democrats w were re satanic Democratic fathers said the same of their rivals Politics isn't taken as as seriously now Average Average Aver Aver- Average age intelligence is higher higher- Voters think more for themselves And too the theold old time elections elections elec elec- were somewhat in the nature of national drunken debauches even long iong before General Harrisons Harrison's hard cider campaign when l I quor was served fr free free- e. e in thousands of log cabins specially sped erected e all alt over the country by spellbinders When women got the vote there was much specula speculation as to how would many be influenced influenced by their husbands in balloting No way of answering this question in a broad sense of course But all of us know w households where h husband and wife vote tickets I automatically canceling ea each h others other's vote I Its It's claimed now by many ans who keep I tab behind the scenes that the political belief of husbands is steadily less an and Jess Jess' less less' powerful in influencing wives' wives votes The interesting possibility rises that a peculiar new nev period of history is at hand in which children will have their political faith educated into inJo them by their mothers others just as fathers used to 0 guide their sons At any rate the average mother has a lot more more Influence with the children I ren than father has s. s I |